Rosary and Adoration 2016 Calendar – The Respect Life Office invites all parishes in our diocese to unite in prayer and participate in this special program for life. View calendar of parishes having rosary and adoration here.

Education

New York Alliance Against Assisted Suicide is an informal association of many diverse organizations, institutions, agencies and individuals in New York State committed to preventing the legalization of assisted suicide in the state. They include representatives of the following communities: disability rights, patients’ rights, health care, hospice care, civil rights, senior rights and various faith-based advocacy organizations.

Blogs – (Respect Life Blogs are created by Respect Life staff members on Respect Life issues.)

The Culture Project – The culture project is an initiative of young people set out to restore culture through the experience of virtue. We proclaim the dignity of the human person and the richness of living sexual integrity, inviting our culture to become fully alive.

Videos & Books Recommendations – (The Respect Life Office has a variety of Life Issues DVDs and books to borrow. Please consider them for your parish or school and spread the word on Respect Life Issues. Contact the Respect Life Office if you wish to borrow these materials.)

Pontifical Academy for Life The Pontifical Academy for Life, founded by Pope John Paul II, exists for the promotion and defense of human life, especially regarding bioethics as it regards Christian morality. Its statute was defined by the motu proprio Vitae Mysterium of Pope John Paul II on 11 February 1994.

Spiritual Adoption Program Encouraging people to “spiritually adopt” an unborn baby, and to follow their baby along the path to being born.

Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities – USCCB – (As pastors and teachers, we proclaim that human life is a precious gift from God; that each person who receives this gift has responsibilities toward God, self, and others; and that society, through its laws and social institutions, must protect and nurture human life at every stage of its existence.)